1. There were other library and book-related exhibits at the fair that are not discussed here, such as a children’s library and story room, a model library of science, and an exhibit of the hundred best books by women .
2. Lenox R. Lohr, speech to the Midwest Power Engineering Conference, 9 February 1931, deposited in the University of Illinois at Chicago, Century of Progress Records, 1927–52 (hereafter CoP Records), Lenox R. Lohr Papers, box 20, folder 200 .
3. Sarah Wadsworth and Wayne A. Wiegand, Right Here I See My Own Books: The Women’s Building Library at the World’s Columbian Exposition (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2012) .
4. See C. Ganz, The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair: A Century of Progress (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008), ch. 3 .
5. Lenox R. Lohr, speech to the Midwest Power Engineering Conference, 9 February 1931 .